Join us as a Senior Data Domain Architect to deliver and promote architecture patterns and solutions for our data domain. You will provide Solution Architects within delivery project teams expert advice and leadership on data design elements of solutions.
We are the UK's largest government department, helping people into work and making payments worth over £195bn a year to support some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
As a Senior Data Domain Architect, you will work on DWP's core data architecture and digital strategy, advising, steering, and influencing decisions at the centre of DWP's digital transformation.
Key responsibilities include:
• Governing solution designs, approving architecture decisions and technology choices.
• Sharing data domain knowledge and experience to drive IT strategy, including defining the tools and techniques most appropriate for the environment.
• Delivering and promoting architecture patterns and solutions for the data domain, including solution designs, approving architecture decisions and technology choices.
• Supporting the delivery of a data technology roadmap.
• Understanding industry trends and research in the data domain.
• Supporting the data design elements of solutions.
• Assisting in defining the strategic IT data architecture.
You will have no line management responsibilities and will work closely with our Lead Data Domain Architect.
Requirements:
• Govern architecture design of business-critical IT projects/services in a large, complex UK central government or private sector organisation.
• Develop data strategies, blueprints, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Understand database design, technologies, design patterns, tools, and best practices (including RDBMS, NoSQL, and Open Source).
• Work with public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, and best practices.
Location: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.
Hybrid work: flexible working, flexible hours and flexible days, with some time at home and some time in a hub with the team.
Pay: competitive pay from £55,557 to £70,000.
Pension: a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £19,000 a year.
Holidays: a generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.
Benefits: flexible working, family-friendly policies, time off volunteering and charitable giving, discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more, interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, working in an award-winning environment and culture, professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.